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The production team behind the most anticipated show of the year tell Annabel Nugent about what makes ‘The First Shadow’ so different from the usual screen-to-stage adaptation, and why they hope the ‘Stranger Things’ monsters will frighten away the curse of Covid from the West End

Chronic illness is captured to extraordinary effect in Annie Baker’s slow yet absorbing new play. Elsewhere, snarling Pinter lacks bite, while the songs eclipse all in rarely revived Sondheim

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There may be comfort in the retelling of Dickens’ familiar tale, but the best adaptations show the imagination to still surprise

Despite fine acting, Harry Davies’ political thriller about a contaminated water scandal fails to plumb the depths of its characters

Starry cast including Lily James and Doon Mackichan are tossed around in a plot that never gets hold of its many concerns

This Shaw revival has wonderful moments but there is little spark between Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins

Gillian Slovo’s new verbatim play about the 2017 tragedy is overpowering theatre that doubles as activism; a comedy of iPhone-fixated family dysfunction is hilariously relatable; and the hills are alive again

Gina Beck is radiant as Maria in this immaculate and impish production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical